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10 Dec

2017

Two Connecticut Churches to Offer Rorate Masses This Saturday

Posted by Stuart Chessman 

Two churches in Connecticut will have Rorate Masses in honor of Our Lady early next Saturday morning, December 16.

St. Mary Church, Norwalk, 6:30 am

St. Mary Church, Greenwich, 6:30 am.

This notice in the St. Mary Norwalk bulletin explains what a Rorate Mass is:

“Rorate” comes from the Introit of the day: “Drop down ye heavens from above…” This is a Mass celebrated in honor of our Lady on a Saturday in Advent. This Mass is always done in darkness with only candlelight. Ideally the sun should begin to rise at the Consecration. This year sunrise is at 7:14 am, so that starting the Mass at 6:30, the dawn will indeed begin to show her roseate face when the Body of Christ is lifted up to be adored.

There are also Rorate Masses scheduled this week at the Church of the Holy Innocents in New York: see https://sthughofcluny.org/2017/11/rorate-masses-at-church-of-holy-innocents.html

Rorate Mass St. Mary Norwalk 2016

Rorate Mass at St. Mary Church, Greenwich, 2015

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